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I want to see an episode where Rarity learns to enchant or infuse gemstones with magical effects. She turns them into accessories or jewelry that the ponies can wear and it gives them special abilities. Like she can make a bracelet that lets Rainbow Dash fly faster or a necklace that magnifies Twilight's magic, etc...

Spike managed to recover the cucumber slice after RD swallowed it. Strange. Did he stick his hand all the way into her stomach?

The part about Twilight being a Canterlot snob wasn't so... inaccurate. More like worded improperly. She was a loner and didn't like friends back then.

I just realized they did a gag role reversal with Applejack and Big Mac like they did in Dragon Quest with Spike and Rarity.

Can't remember well. Stream was lagging. Was his article about his life back in Canterlot or something?

When Celestia first turned Discord to stone, did anyone wonder why she kept his statue in her garden? I mean, that thing was the sealed spirit of chaos and it wasn't a particularly a pretty looking statue to begin with.

Dragon Quest wasn't about Spike's crush on Rarity. There's more to him than that crush thing. It was about his identity as a dragon. Besides, Rarity has been affectionate to Spike like that before in Secret of my Excess and he loved it. If Rarity managed to bait Spike with all that affection, he wouldn't have went on the dragon migration and we wouldn't have had a story. Besides, kids don't know what friend zone means. If Rarity only does like Spike as a friend, the writers won't beat around the bush about it and make Rarity at least mention it on screen to another character, most likely Twilight, that she only likes Spike as a friend. Plus Rarity goes Spikey-Wikey even if he's not around to witness her act that way so why does she even do so?

You are refering to Moon Dancer? There was no evidence that Spike had a crush on Moon Dancer but there was a mention that Moon Dancer was having a party at the time. Twilight was invited but she rudely refused. Its assumed that Spike was merely going to the party with a gift for Moon Dancer because it was her party.

Nah, I made it up. It just seemed like it made sense. Dragons are portrayed as solitary creatures in the series. Some animals migrate for the purpose of mating (usually the males and females migrate separately from each other and in DQ, there were only male dragons probably waiting for the females to arrive), Reptiles (I think), after hatching from their eggs are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. It would make sense that dragons aren't family oriented like ponies are. Which is sad for Spike because the ponies raised him to be social and friendly. I dunno about his dragon breath teleporting scrolls. Nothing says on the show that the other dragons can't do that either or a variation of it because Garble wasn't surprised about the letter that Spike got during the belching contest.

Spike is actually one of the more complicated characters on the show. There are many layers of extremes to his personality ranging from sarcastic jerk to voice of reason to unlikely hero to sidekick to comic relief to some form of sealed monster. He's had a lot of development over the past two seaons which proves the writers really love his character.

After Rarity passes away, she will no longer be there to remind Spike of how kind and generous he is. He falls victim to his own dragon instincts. Spike will hoard and he will grow again into his feral dragon form and leave Ponyville to live a life of solitude like other dragons greedily guarding a treasure hoard of jewels and gems for the rest of his life. Once every generation, he will join the dragon migration to mate with female dragons and at the end of each migration, he will return to his solitary life. He will have many dragon children who he will never know and he will have many dragon mates in his life time who will never love him back like Rarity did because dragons are not like ponies. Add this to the fact that Spike doesn't know his origin, where he came from and who his parents were. Spike is a very tragic character. This is why I hope one day he wins Rarity's heart so he will feel happines even just for a little bit in his life time... Spike deserves a happy ending with Rarity... Of course in a world where magic is the norm, deus ex machina is god. Anything could happen. Spike could do a Dragonheart/Drakengard with Rarity or he might just get transformed into a pony by some form of enchantment. Its not really as sad as it looks if you think about it this way.

I find it strange how some fans would think Spike is so young when he has demonstrated maturity even beyond the 6 main ponies sometimes. See Lesson Zero and Best Night Ever. Sure he can be immature some times but so do the 6 main ponies from time to time. Compared to the CmC's, Spike is responssibly independent like being on royal business to Canterlot for days on end as mentioned in Look Before you Sleep. I always imagined it was Spike that takes care of Twilight instead of the other way around like cooking or cleaning for her as implied in Its About Time when Twilight left Spike home alone to go to Tartarus. He is a good cook as shown or mentioned in episodes like Over a Barrel, Owls Well that Ends Well and A Bird in the Hoof. In Secret of my Excess, its implied Spike has no curfew because Twilight didn't wait for him to come home before going to bed. I think why people consider him too young at first glance is because of his tiny dragon body. Pic related. Yes, he's a baby dragon but he is not a baby pony like the Cake twins. Yes, Twilight hatched his egg when she was young but we don't have a declaration of age or how long time has passed since then. Lauren Faust also said the ages were deliberately designed ambigous for story telling purposes. We don't know how these mythical creatures age and we don't know how long a day/year lasts on a world where the sun and moon are controlled by two alicorns. I disagree withThereisnospoon303 saying the writers reined in regarding Spike and Rarity's ship tease due to real world reasons. S2 episodes ended production some time around late Dec 2011. If that's the case, by the time SomE and DQ aired, both episodes were already completely assembled and ready for airing. There's no way the writers could predict how the fans would react months in advance to what they write in their episodes. Spike and Rarity are cute and the writers know this. The moment that you sexualize it is the only time it looks weird and that's why you shouldn't. Both characters are innocent and fairy tale-ish with their idea of romance. Rarity as a princess meeting her prince while Spike as a knight saving a princess. And if Rarity only really likes Spike as a kid/brother/pet, wouldn't the writers make her tell some other pony about it to verbalize it on screen in an episode? Even if it was just for a gag. I mean, the show's real target audience are young children. Kids aren't gonna over analyze each character's behavior and create a subjective conclusion behind it. Kids don't even know what friendzone means. What they see on screen, they'll take it at face value and whatever that may be is what the writers intend to convey. I mean, take Spike's crush on Rarity, for example. The writers didn't beat the bush around that. Or the friendship reports at the end of each episode as a recap for the kids in case they didn't get it. The way I see it, Spike and Rarity started out as a gag for the characters involved. An unrequitted secret crush used for visual humor. Then it changed by A Dog and Pony Show. The writers turned it into a story about this underdog boy doing touching heroic acts to win the heart of an unattainable girl. Its like a side story now simillar to how the CMC's do things to earn their cutie marks (and how RD wants to be a Wonderbolt member to a certain degree). But unlike the CMC's, Spike/Rarity side story progressed. By SomE, the secret crush was acknowledged. And by DQ, the girl's apathy has melted away and is finally noticing the boy. I can't wait to see what the writers have in store for Spike and Rarity in S3. There's no doubt they'll share at least 1 future episode in S3 like they did in the past two seasons. Just my opinion.